Sujeet Kumar — CTO

Accomplished Engineering Leader and Architect with over 16+ years of experience spanning CTO roles in high-growth tech startups and Senior Engineering Management at a scaling SaaS platform (Vymo). Combines deep hands-on technical skill in system design, coding, and rigorous code review with expertise in defining technical strategy, mentoring high-performing teams, and establishing robust process creation and adherence (Agile, CI/CD). Proven track record in full-stack architecture, distributed systems, and delivering operational excellence, resulting in quantified improvements like a 97% reduction in developer-handled on-call incidents. Key Impact & Achievements: ⚫ Operational Excellence: Drastically improved production stability, reducing developer-handled on-call incidents from over 40 per month to virtually zero. This was achieved through systematic Root Cause Analysis (RCA), enhanced service validations, and a robust alert system overhaul, resulting in a 97% reduction in critical interruptions. ⚫ System Stability & Latency: Led the technical initiative to redesign the Config Service promotion process, implementing batching and synchronization fixes that reduced configuration release/promotion times from hours to approx 2 minutes, enhancing overall system predictability. ⚫ Observability & Modernization: Drove the enterprise-wide rollout of OpenTelemetry (OTEL) for enhanced distributed tracing and observability, drastically improving Time-to-Detect (TTD) and Time-to-Resolve (TTR). Also championed and executed core system upgrades across major components (Node.js, MongoDB, MySQL, Java). ⚫ Engineering Leadership & Process: Established rigorous engineering processes, including the adoption of Agile methodologies, structured Jira workflows for bug tracking, and comprehensive CI/CD pipelines. ⚫ Strategic Alignment: Mentored and coached the technical team in advanced technical problem-solving and debugging. Defined and drove Objective and Key Results (OKRs) to translate the core company vision into clear, prioritized team tasks, ensuring highly focused execution and measurable outcomes. ⚫ Startup Scale (CTO): As Co-founder and CTO, built and scaled SuperProfs.com into one of India's leading online test-prep platforms, handling 1.5-2 million monthly visitors and pioneering low-bandwidth, high-definition video streaming solutions.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and EdTech expert with strong leadership in software development and system architecture.

Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Experience: 16 yrs 8 mos

Skills

System Design
Agile Methodologies
Observability
Software Development

Career Highlights

Achieved 97% reduction in on-call incidents.
Led major system redesigns improving stability and latency.
Pioneered high-definition video streaming solutions.

Work Experience

Vymo, Inc.

Senior Engineering Manager | Vymo (7 yrs 6 mos)

SuperProfs.com

Co-Founder & Chief Technical Officer(CTO) (4 yrs 8 mos)

Co-Founder & Chief Technical Officer(CTO) (3 yrs 1 mo)

Contata Solutions Pvt Ltd

System Analyst (1 yr 4 mos)

Education

Bachelor of Technology - BTech at Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur

Sujeet Kumar

CTO

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India16 yrs 8 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Achieved 97% reduction in on-call incidents.
Led major system redesigns improving stability and latency.
Pioneered high-definition video streaming solutions.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and EdTech expert with strong leadership in software development and system architecture.

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Skills

Core Skills

System DesignAgile MethodologiesObservabilitySoftware Development

Other Skills

Backend DevelopmentCloud Infrastructure ManagementCloud SolutionsConfiguration ManagementContent Management SystemDeployment and Release ProcessDistributed TracingFrontend DevelopmentJavaJavaScriptLinuxMySQLNotification ServiceNotification System ModernizationOpenTelemetry

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Experience

Vymo, inc.

Senior Engineering Manager | Vymo

Sep 2018 – Present · 7 yrs 6 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

⚫ Operational Excellence & Reliability: Drove a culture of accountability for stability, implementing monthly on-call analysis, categorization, and long-term fixes that eliminated recurring incidents across core services (Config, LMS).
⚫ Notification System Modernization: Led the end-to-end migration from an error-prone, JEXL-based legacy system to a structured, configuration-driven notification service. This initiative reduced client setup time from days to minutes, introduced stability by replacing code-like expressions, and enabled dynamic, self-service configuration (defining source, trigger points, channels, and custom templates).
⚫ System Design & Modernization: Architected and executed high-risk, platform-wide migrations (Mongoose/MongoDB 4.4 to 4.13, Node.js/Java runtime upgrades) with zero production issues post-deployment.
⚫ Process Setup & Improvement: Defined and enforced engineering standards, utilizing Jira for structured bug tracking, managing backlog prioritization, and implementing rigorous code quality reviews.
⚫ Deployment and Release Process (LMS): Strategically managed the deployment architecture, successfully migrating client-specific custom code to dedicated repositories and establishing robust hotfix procedures and streamlined releases via Bitbucket pipelines.
⚫ Strategic Project Leadership: Currently leading the Kfuse Observability Platform Rollout, providing technical guidance, unblocking migration paths, and managing team deliverables.

Operational ExcellenceReliabilityNotification System ModernizationSystem DesignProcess SetupDeployment and Release Process+2

Superprofs.com

2 roles

Co-Founder & Chief Technical Officer(CTO)

Jan 2014 – Sep 2018 · 4 yrs 8 mos

Superprofs is one of India's leading online test-prep platform attracting 1.5-2 million monthly visitors and is pioneer in offering high definition video courses at low bandwidth. The company offers online classes, assessment engine, doubt clearing facility for various competitive exams such as CA, CS, CMA, UPSC, Banking etc. It is backed by world class investors like IDG Ventures, Kalaari Capital and Indian Angel Network.
Founded SuperProfs with the vision of connecting India’s top professors for professional exams with millions of students & professionals
Built and managed technical team with peak strength of 25 members. Planned workloads and managed roadmaps, tasks, deadlines across multiple projects.
Involved in complete Software Development Life Cycle(SDLC) including requirement, architecture, design, coding, testing.
Designed and developed Frontend and Backend for the Learning Management System (LMS) for consuming courses and e-commerce portal Storefront to list and sale courses.
Designed internal systems to optimize and automate the internal processes. This helps team to perform same task with much smaller team with better efficiency.
Managing cloud infrastructure and deployment in amazon web services (AWS). Later migrated the complete infrastructure from AWS to google cloud platform (GCP) which resulted in 40\% cost saving.

Software Development Life CycleFrontend DevelopmentBackend DevelopmentCloud Infrastructure ManagementSoftware Development

Co-Founder & Chief Technical Officer(CTO)

Nov 2010 – Dec 2013 · 3 yrs 1 mo

Aurus Network is a technology company with the vision of making quality education accessible to masses. It is revolutionizing the way distance/online education is delivered. Aurus offers CourseHub, its flagship product, which is a cloud-based solution for educational institutions (higher education, test prep and training,schools, etc.) to capture, store and deliver (live or on-demand) lectures online. The company has been funded by Indian Angel Networks and is the recipient of Microsoft Bizspark 2012 Startup Challenge in cloud category.
Founded Aurus Network to empower education and training institutes in making their programs available to remote students using technology
Developed a core technology to make streaming of HD quality videos possible at extremely low internet speeds (100 Kbps)
Developed capture Appliance to capture video and any other digital aids like presentation, interactive boards while teacher delivers lecture in a regular classroom or a dedicated studio. The live feed is transmitted to video streaming server. It can schedule lecture in advance according to class time with easy to use web scheduler.
Developed Video Transcoder to converts video into custom format optimized for video streaming.
Build Content Management System to archives video making it available for viewing later. This allows access to sophisticated tools like organize video, make them searchable, edit video, add interactive quizzes, apply access control, publish video to youtube channel.
Build Video Streaming Module to stream video from cloud storage (amazon s3 or google cloud storage) to students. Used AES-126 encryption and other custom modules to secure the video from illegal download.
Successfully pivoted the B2B business into a B2B2C platform business (SuperProfs)

Video StreamingContent Management SystemCloud SolutionsSoftware Development

Contata solutions pvt ltd

System Analyst

Jul 2009 – Nov 2010 · 1 yr 4 mos

Worked as a System Analyst at Contata Solutions, India in a Development position.
Worked on project Claimbot, which is used to track status of various client’s patents in
USPTO (United States Patent Trademark Office).